The Republic of Catarra is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Miquel Badia with a fair hand, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 25.416 billion Catarrans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Barcelona. The average income tax rate is 24.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Catarran economy, worth a remarkable 4,459 trillion Catarran Francs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 175,458 Catarran Francs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Riot police are stationed around paintings of violent protestors, diplomatic missions are often mistaken as declarations of war, security reviews double as corporate marketing, and domestic fishermen fly the Catarran flag out of fear of being blown up. Crime is totally unknown. Catarra's national animal is the Lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is catholicism.

Catarra is ranked 308,964^th in the world and 22^nd in Moonveil for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -9.85 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.